Guilbeau: Do it for 'Beano' -- Saturday night in Tiger Stadium

8:00 AM,
Oct. 13, 2012

College football commentator Carroll H. "Beano" Cook, seen in 2001, died in his sleep Thursday in Pittsburgh, Pa. The 81 year-old commentator had worked for ESPN since 1986 and was the sports information director at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1956 to 1966.

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BATON ROUGE - In an October 2009 interview for a feature on the 50th anniversary of Billy Cannon's iconic Halloween Run in what remains the highest-ranked pairing of teams in Tiger Stadium history, Beano Cook told me of a notch on his bucket list not yet crossed out.

He wanted to see a game in person at night in Tiger Stadium.

Carroll Hoff "Beano" Cook, 81, died Thursday. A college football expert and commentator for ESPN since 1986, Cook was working a 35-0 loss to Syracuse as Pittsburgh's sports information director on Oct. 31, 1959, on the afternoon of the night that No. 1 LSU beat No. 3 Ole Miss 7-3 ...